Improvement in instruments for opening bale-ties



G. LESTER. Instrument for Opening Bale-Ties.

No. 198,398. Patented Dec. 18,1877.

Wiin ease s UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES LESTER, OF NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA.

IMPROVEMENT IN INSTRUMENTS FOR OPENING BALE-TIES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 198,398, dated December 18, 1877; application filed July 5, 1877.

- over the buckle and turned ends, as in Figure 1, by turning the instrument over on its forked end, it serves to turn the band inside out, thus releasing the ends, as in Fig. 2, when, by applying a rotating motion by means of the cross-bar handle, using the outer side of forks as fulcrum, the buckle and ends are thrown out and loosened. The same effect is pro duced if the ends only are operated on without the buckle.

Figs. 3 and 4 represent the instrument with forked ends a a, standard b, and cross-bar handle 0.

Fig. 5 represents a section at d of one of the forks.

What I claim, and wish to secure by Letters Patent, is-

A forked lever with cross-bar handle, substantially as described, and for the uses set forth.

New Orleans, March 8, 1877.

OHS. LESTER.

Witnesses:

HENRY A. PEELER, JOHN J. HOFER. 

